NYU and Columbia Language Exchange
NYU students are eligible to enroll in certain language courses offered at Columbia University during each fall and spring semester (summer sessions are not included). The list of language courses available to NYU students can be found in Albert, under Columbia Language Exchange (subject code COLU-UA).
Language courses offered include the following (subject to change):
Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Catalan, Czech (intermediate level only), Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Polish, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Swahili (only when not offered in CAS), Swedish, Classical Tibetan, Modern Tibetan, Ottoman Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Yoruba (intermediate level only), and Zulu.
Language Class Auditing at NYU College of Arts and Science (CAS)
Matriculated students in the College or in any division of the University (undergraduate or graduate) may audit (i.e., attend lectures without intending to receive credit) any course in the College with the consent of, and under the conditions established by, the instructor and the department. Auditors may not preempt space required for registered students. Courses cannot be audited as a means of satisfying requirements for an Incomplete grade or as a means of changing a previous grade. Special (visiting or non-degree) students may not audit courses.
Effective with the fall 2020 term, and following Office of the Registrar policy, auditors must be fully registered for audited courses in Albert and are charged full tuition, but do not earn points. They receive the grade of “R” which is not computed in the grade point average. If they are not CAS students, they must have permission from their home school, and their advisers or deans’ offices must confirm with the College before approval to audit a CAS course is granted.
Students do not register themselves as auditors on Albert; the process requires a signed add/drop form sent to the Office of the Registrar with “register as auditor” noted in the special processing section. *Students have to reach out to the language department and the professor teaching the class they want to take for permission to audit.